I have accepted that I will be childless, writes AMANDA PLATELL. It is because of my personal experience that I feel to a certain extent qualified to comment on the extraordinary story of how a surrogate mother gave birth to her own gay son's baby. Supermarket worker Kyle Casson (centre), 26, of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, was so distraught when his plan to have an IVF child through another surrogate fell through that his 46-year-old mother Anne-Marie (left) stepped in. She became pregnant with a donor egg fertilised by her own son's sperm. What is so disturbing is Kyle's sense of entitlement. Why should his 'right to be a parent' be inalienable? What about the rights of an unborn child and its future happiness? The boy's plight came to light last week only because a High Court judge ruled that Kyle can now adopt the boy — who's called Miles (right) and is eight months old — as his father.
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Ed Miliband and I have met a number of times. Before he became leader of the Labour Party, I liked him and thought him charming and honest. What seemed to stand out was his passion for doing the best for this country.But since he became leader, I’ve grown increasingly disenchanted as he becomes more and more addicted to every grubby populist tactic going.
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Princess Beatrice has been branded 'Her Royal Work Shyness' after revelations that, aged 26, she has given up her job with Sony Pictures and has just returned from her third luxury holiday in a month. She is derided by a red-top newspaper as a 'royal scrounger', whose four-bedroom apartment in St James's Palace was refurbished from the public purse at a cost of £250,000.
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